Note 2 — LIDDELL’S HISTORY OF ROME.[1]

This was a law, passed after the battle of Cannæ, at the instance of the tribune Oppius, “by which it was forbidden that any woman should wear a gay-coloured dress, or have more than half an ounce of gold to ornament her person, and that none should approach within a mile of any city or town in a car drawn by horses.”—Vol. i. p. 363.